The 48 Best Bill Murray Quotes

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself. Bill Murray

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. Bill Murray, Lost in Translation

I live a little bit on the seat of my pants, I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me. We’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you’re available, life gets huge. You’re really living it. Bill Murray

Grab this day by the neck and kiss it. Bill Murray

When I feel like I’m stuck, I do something — not like I’m Mother Teresa or anything, but there’s someone that’s forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an ‘Attaboy’ or a ‘How you doin’ out there.’ Bill Murray

I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person. Bill Murray

There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect. Bill Murray

Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is. Bill Murray

Love can be seeing that here we are and there’s this world here. Bill Murray

I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song ‘Love the One You’re With’; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with. Bill Murray

We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to, that’s part of your obligation. Bill Murray

I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that’s sort of how you’re supposed to live. Bill Murray

I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar. Bill Murray

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life. Bill Murray

It pays off in your life when you’re in an elevator and people are uncomfortable. You can just say, ‘That’s a beautiful scarf.’ It’s just thinking about making someone else feel comfortable. You don’t worry about yourself, because we’re vibrating together. If I can make yours just a little bit groovier, it’ll affect me. It comes back, somehow. Bill Murray

Eh, it’s not that attractive to have a plan. Bill Murray

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey. Bill Murray

People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honor. Bill Murray

If you have someone that you think is the one… don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind and think, OK let’s make a date, let’s plan this and make a party, we’ll get married. Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world and go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport. Bill Murray

Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn. Bill Murray

I made a lot of mistakes and realized I had to let them go. Don’t think about your errors or failures, otherwise you’ll never do a thing. Bill Murray

Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it’s usually something unusual. Bill Murray, Stripes

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. Bill Murray

You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. […] That’s the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you’ll actually witness, that you’ll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it’s Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering. Bill Murray

You’re on a gravy train with biscuit wheels. Bill Murray, Kingpin

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing. Bill Murray

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go on an overnight drunk… Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome. Bill Murray, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth. Bill Murray

I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it. Bill Murray

I think people place too much emphasis on their careers. I wish we could all live in the mountains at high altitude. Bill Murray, Groundhog Day

You work, you get paid, you drink. Bill Murray

Can I have another one of these with some booze in it? Bill Murray, Groundhog Day

I do absolutely nothing. I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something. Bill Murray

I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time and you want to say ‘yes’ more sparingly. Bill Murray

He’s got one foot in the frying pan and one in the pressure cooker. Bill Murray, Kingpin

One of my habits is I don’t do exactly what you want me to do. I really didn’t get the guideline about your life. I was just trying to live my own right now. Bill Murray

All parties are good. Bill Murray

And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn’t matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they’ve got all the money! It just doesn’t matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER! It just doesn’t matter! It just doesn’t matter! Bill Murray, Meatballs

I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you’ve got to study, and that wasn’t going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn’t going to work. Bill Murray

I don’t deserve someone like you. But If I ever could, I swear I would love you for the rest of my life. Bill Murray, Groundhog Day

You know I’m not big on apologizing. So I’ll just skip it if it’s all the same to you. Bill Murray, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can. Bill Murray

You know what they say: ‘Ain’t no try, ain’t nothing to it but to do it.’ Bill Murray

Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you. Bill Murray, Rushmore